Tag: Air Pollution - Page 10

There are a number of ways to try to shut down a coal plant: Citizen petitions, grassroots movements, legislative maneuvering, and big, banner-laden activist protests. Usually it takes a combination of all of the above

Yes, it's true that our air -- especially in smoggy cities like Los Angeles -- has gotten cleaner since important environmental legislation was passed back in the early 1970s. The EPA and the Clean Air Act have helped

The line gets drawn somewhere, folks. Lately, I've been receiving a bunch of comments asking me to lay off the Tea Party. One quipped that "it's not like every person who believes in personal accountability and

This is your mission, should you choose to accept it: you are a biofuels researcher, diligently seeking a solution that can take mankind into the post-industrial revolution, an era of alternative fuels that are both sustainable

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...not Going Far Enough & Too Many Loopholes
The International Maritime Organisation (IMO, which is a part of the United Nations) has finally gotten its act together and agreed on regulations for for cargo ships (not only a huge

Just the sight of smoggy, polluted air looming over a cityscape is often enough to make one feel a bit down in the dumps, but apparently breathing in the stuff is only making things worse. Study after study into the effects of

As the New Jersey legislature votes to ban fracking, some word on what the EPA is doing to minimize the environmental damage which could be caused with unregulated hydraulic fracturing: Natural Gas Watch

For the Finn's, having a sauna is as essential as a cottage is to Canadians. So what could be more natural than a celebration of saunas. Just the ticket in Turku, a Finnish coastal city that is a European Capital of Culture for

Joe Romm's Climate Progress is all hot and bothered about Fox News' coverage of a new report Climate Change, the Indoor Environment, and Health, and its headline, Green Buildings Hazardous to Health? Report

Bees may well be a canary in the coal mine when it comes to environmental quality. But as scientists still struggle to determine the causes of colony collapse, airports in Germany have been using honeybees to evaluate the impact of

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Messing With the Local Air Currents
It's already pretty obvious to anyone who's ever been in a city on a smoggy day that air quality can get quite bad in urban areas, but we're still finding new reasons why that is so. The most obvious ones

China is beginning to see the costs of its rapid march towards industrialization -- the heavy industry, coal-fired power plants, and numerous factories have so saturated the air with pollution that cancer is

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Knowledge is Power
The European Environment Agency and the European Commission have release new set of 32 online maps that show where air pollutants are present in high concentrations. This allows the pinpointing of major sources of pollution